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The Chemosphere is a modernist house in Los Angeles, California, designed by John Lautner in 1960. The building, which the Encyclopædia Britannica once called "the most modern home built in the world", [1] is admired both for the ingenuity of its solution to the problem of the site and for its unique octagonal design.
The Lawrence and Martha Joseph Residence and Apartments, often called the Hobbit Houses, are a landmarked example of the Storybook style of architecture in Los Angeles, California. Hobbit Houses LAHCM marker Hobbit Houses turtle pond. The informal name "Hobbit Houses" is due to their supposed resemblance to the architecture of Tolkien's Shire. [1]
Exterior view above roof of drinking glass skylights Club James. The home was originally built for Helen and Paul Sheats and their three children. Helen, an artist, and Paul, a university professor, had previously commissioned Lautner for the 1948–1949 Sheats Apartments project located in Westwood adjacent to the University of California, Los Angeles.
Get the Los Angeles, CA local weather forecast by the hour and the next 10 days. ... With their Los Angeles-area homes still smoldering, families return to search the ruins for memories.
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Get the Los Angeles, CA local weather forecast by the hour and the next 10 days. ... Families in shock begin to visit their charred homes in the Los Angeles area. Many watched their homes burn on ...
Dome on Mooers House. The Victorian era house combines elements of Queen Anne, Richardsonian Romanesque and Moorish Revival architectural styles.. In their book, "An Architectural Guidebook to Los Angeles," authors David Gebhard and Robert Winter note that the home's overall design is in the Queen Anne style, though are also elements of Richardsonian Romanesque (the two pairs of small columns ...
Get the Los Angeles, CA local weather forecast by the hour and the next 10 days. ... 3,000-acre Malibu wildfire that has destroyed homes and forced authorities to issue evacuation orders to around ...